Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine demands Russia to allow Denisova to visit Ukrainian political prisoners

June 25, 2018

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine calls on Russia to allow the Ukrainian ombudsperson Liudmila Denisova to Ukrainian political prisoners who are illegally held in the dungeons of the FSB and Russian colonies.

On June 25 Press Secretary of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Mariana Betsa wrote on Twitter: "We have sent an urgent note to the Russian Federation demanding Ukrainian Ombudsperson Liudmyla Denisova's unimpeded access to Ukrainian political prisoners kept in Russia. First of all, we demand access to those who are on hunger strike and whose condition is serious, namely Oleh Sentsov, Volodymyr Balukh and others".

Liudmila Denisova, the commissioner  of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for  Human Rights, has been  in Russia since June 15, but she has been  refused either to meet or communicate  with Ukrainian political prisoners.